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Eleven go birding in a minibus

12 Saturday May 2018

Posted by sconzani in birds, nature

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barn owl, birding, birdwatching, British birds, Glossy ibis, Tree sparrow, Wood duck

180512 Seawatching at Musselburgh

From 4 to 9 May, I joined a group of my fellow Glamorgan birders on a 6-day, multi-location, dawn-to-dusk, exhilarating (if a little exhausting), absolutely incredible birding blast to Northumberland and beyond.

180512 At East Chevington Nature Reserve

As a group we saw 149 different species of bird, I added 52 birds to my year list, of which 18 were first-in-my-lifetime sightings, and I increased my knowledge of birds well beyond my initial expectations. And I saw a wide range of magnificent sites and stunning scenery in England and Scotland that I hadn’t seen before. Huge thanks to my birding buddies Ade, Alan, Andrew, Ceri, John, Rob, Stuart, Tim, Trevor, and Trish. You’re the best!!!

180512 Seawatching at Druridge Bay

The photos below show just a few of the birds we saw – there will be blogs on individual species as soon as I get through processing my 1100+ photos. In the meantime, here’s a link to my updated birding list. I’ve now got 176 of the 200 species I’m aiming to see this year (though a couple of these are dubious ticks and I should probably aim for 204 to compensate). With most of the more common birds now ticked off and this trip done and dusted, the task of finding the final 24 (or 28) species becomes a whole lot harder.

133 wood duck139 barn owl147 tree sparrow164 glossy ibis

 

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A parliament of owls

16 Monday Jan 2017

Posted by sconzani in birds, nature

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Athene noctua, barn owl, Bubo bubo, Cardiff Castle, eagle owl, Eurasian eagle owl, Falconry pest control, Little owl, Tyto alba

I visited Cardiff Castle for just the second time last week when a friend came to visit and, as part of that, I also got to meet their airborne pest control team again.

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Here in Cardiff, sites like the castle, the Millennium Stadium and the Central Library all employ specialist falconry companies who are tasked with deterring gulls and pigeons from feeding and nesting at these places. I blogged about Dexter the Saker falcon and his Harris hawk mates back in September 2015 but this time I met the owl members of the crew. These are not wild birds, they’ve either been rescued or bred in captivity.

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~ a Barn owl (Tyto alba) and friend

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~ a Little owl (Athene noctua)

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~ and Hector, a Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) (that’s also Hector at the top)

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I'm a writer and photographer; researcher and blogger; birder and nature lover; countryside rambler and city strider; volunteer and biodiversity recorder.

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